Adobe Postscript Printer Drivers - can not add to Broker

Sent this back on Sept 12 but it appears to have disappeared from the group.Let's try again.

Within our office we print to our Xerox DC 12 colour copier/printer throughan EFI Splash RIP. Xerox provides a windows 2000 printer driver for theSplash (G630) but its buggy. In particular, every time you try to accessthis printer object's properties on a Windows 2000 system you get a messagethat the driver has not been installed, and do you want to re-install it.

Anyways, if you go to Adobe's web site and download their Adobe PostsciptDriver installation program (winsteng106.exe), you can use this to install aprinter object (using the same PPD supplied by Xerox) that works properly;that is, no errors when you go to the property windows for the printerobject.

My plan was to install this printer driver based on the Adobe PostscriptPrinter driver into my iPrint broker so that I could install this workingdriver on other computers. The steps I took were as follows:1) installed printer object locally on my Windows 2000 system usingWISTENG1062) installed iPrint client3) rebooted system4) enter iManager 2.0x and go to Manage Broker5) Select the appropriate broker, Resource Management Service, Windows 2000Drivers.6) Select "Add from System"

As I now scroll through the list of available printer drivers (and there arehundreds - essentially every printer driver that came on the Windows 2000CD) I note that there isn't one for the Splash printer object that I createdusing the Adobe Postscript Printer Driver install program.

My question is, why doesn't iManager "see" this installed printer and allowme to add it to my broker. Is this something that is fixed in iManager 2.5?Or does the iPrint client, which is required to carry out a printer driverupload to the broker, not recognize printers installed with the AdobePostscript Printer Driver installation program?

Re: Adobe Postscript Printer Drivers - can not add to Broker

> Sent this back on Sept 12 but it appears to have disappeared from the> group.> Let's try again.>Philip,

It's still there and you got an answer from Mister iPrint himself:

'Okay, The printer driver you add to the workstation using the xeroxinstaller is not necessarily added to the system of drivers for thatworkstation. The "Add from system" only reads the drivers that are shippedwith the workstation OS. The problem you are having is that Xerox isrequiring a special installer to set up the printer driver properly for thespecific workstation. Couple of things to check. Does Xerox provide an"NDPS version" of this printer driver? If not, you could possibly look ata cool solutions entry :http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/13952.htmlthat generates an INF type driver that you can now use to do an "Add fromfile" in iManager. This may or may not work!!'

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